With a sky-high valuation over $70B Facebook has to be super-aggressive to ensure they can support a valuation which seems to grow by the tens of billions every few months. And with the ability to hire some of the best and brightest engineers it is obvious the company should be exploring a range of new ways to justify its lofty valuation which is worth about 75% of Cisco Systems.

2) Compete with iTunes/Netflix: If everyone is in Facebook, all the time then why wouldn’t they consider buying their media where they live. Hint… They will buy it if you offer it.

Well it didn’t take that long for the company to respond as yesterday they said they would be streaming The Dark Night from Warner Brothers with more movies to come later. Goldman Sachs now says Facebook will be a credible long-term threat to Netflix. Color me unsurprised – as I have written recently, it seems Facebook is becoming the Internet.

Number four on the list was as follows:

4) Develop best practices for Facebook marketing: Every company it seems is trying to be a Facebook marketer – and most companies need guidance – perhaps Zuckerberg and company can assist.

Today, the company has released real-time analytics for social plug-ins allowing you to track comments, like button clicks and other important information such as demographics. It isn’t best practices per se but it certainly is a step in the right direction in terms of allowing companies to ascertain how best to leverage social networks.

I still think one of the biggest blockbuster additions to the Facebook product line will be Facebook Ad Connect – a service allowing webmasters to integrate ads distributed by Facebook on their sites based on keyword. This is a major area of vulnerability for Google and this could potentially wreak havoc on Google’s ad margins and non-transparent bidding process if Facebook plays its cards right.

In the nineties, investors asked startups, what would happen if (when) Microsoft comes into your space. In the last decade the name Microsoft was replaced with Google and in the next decade it seems new entrants with good ideas will have to worry about both Google and Facebook.

The one crucial point worth noting is speed will continue to be key and scale must be built more rapidly than ever before as you could wake up any morning and find one of the web’s largest companies is gunning for your marketshare.

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Competing Effectively in a Facebook and Google World

With a sky-high valuation over \$70B Facebook has to be super-aggressive to ensure they can support a valuation which seems to grow by the tens of billions every few months. And with the ability to hire some of the best and brightest engineers it is obvious the company should be exploring a range of new ways to justify its lofty valuation which is worth about 75% of Cisco Systems.

2) Compete with iTunes/Netflix: If everyone is in Facebook, all the time then why wouldn’t they consider buying their media where they live. Hint… They will buy it if you offer it.

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Well it didn’t take that long for the company to respond as yesterday they said they would be streaming The Dark Night from Warner Brothers with more movies to come later. Goldman Sachs now says Facebook will be a credible long-term threat to Netflix. Color me unsurprised – as I have written recently, it seems Facebook is becoming the Internet.

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Number four on the list was as follows:

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4) Develop best practices for Facebook marketing: Every company it seems is trying to be a Facebook marketer – and most companies need guidance – perhaps Zuckerberg and company can assist.

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Today, the company has released real-time analytics for social plug-ins allowing you to track comments, like button clicks and other important information such as demographics. It isn’t best practices per se but it certainly is a step in the right direction in terms of allowing companies to ascertain how best to leverage social networks.

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I still think one of the biggest blockbuster additions to the Facebook product line will be Facebook Ad Connect – a service allowing webmasters to integrate ads distributed by Facebook on their sites based on keyword. This is a major area of vulnerability for Google and this could potentially wreak havoc on Google’s ad margins and non-transparent bidding process if Facebook plays its cards right.

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In the nineties, investors asked startups, what would happen if (when) Microsoft comes into your space. In the last decade the name Microsoft was replaced with Google and in the next decade it seems new entrants with good ideas will have to worry about both Google and Facebook.

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The one crucial point worth noting is speed will continue to be key and scale must be built more rapidly than ever before as you could wake up any morning and find one of the web’s largest companies is gunning for your marketshare.